Vivian Fuchs quotes

Vivian Fuchs quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.”
-- Vivian Fuchs

#Travel Quotes #Looks Quotes #Like You Quotes

“When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.”
“The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.”
“Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.”
“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfÃªted but life-enhancing thoughts.”
“I don't look at myself as suffering.”
“I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, Iâ€™m humbled that you chose me.”
“Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
“Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.140, Macmillan
“Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.”
“I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.”

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